理想大学作文中国文化概论英文版Unit5答案

Unit 5 Ancient Chinese Education

Warm-up Activity

Read the following small passage and finish the tasks afterwards.

Task 1. How much do you know about China Ancient Academy? Try to fill in the following

table.

Notable Ancient China Academies

Names of Academy

Chinese

岳麓书院

白鹿洞书院

嵩阳书院

应天府书院

东林书院

2. Open.

English

Yuelu Academy

White Deer Grotto Academy

Songyang Academy

Ying Tianfu Academy

Donglin Academy

Changsha, Hunan

Lu Shan, Jiangxi

Dengfeng, Henan

Shangqiu, Henan

Wuxi, Jiangsu

Song Dynasty

Southern-Tang

Song Dynasty

Hou Jin

Ming Dynasty

Location

Time of Foundation

Section A

Cultural Treasures

1. Read the following four short stories and try to give titles for each story.

a. The Frog in the Shallow Well (

井底之蛙

)

b. Mencius Relocates Three Times (

孟母三迁

)

c. Yue Fei

’

s Mother Tatooing on his Back (

岳母刺字

)

d. An Argument about the Sun (

小儿辩日

)

2. What can we learn from the four short stories?

a. Importance of Education

b. Educational environment matters

c. Family education

d. No one can know everything including the learned scholars.

Section B

Cultural Knowledge Carding

Task 1. Try to guess the Chinese equivalents for the following words or terms underlined in

the passage below.

1)

Son of Heaven

天子

2)

civil servants

官吏

3)

Four Books

四书

4)

Five Classics

五经

5)

eight-legged essay

八股文

6)

Rote learning

死记硬背

7)

Confucian classics

儒家经典

8)

civil service post

一官半职

9)

a venerable age

高龄

10)

ministerial posts

内阁职务

11)

earning Imperial degrees

获取功名

12)

literary canon

文学领域

13)

poetry and prose

诗词歌赋

14)

The Dream of the Red Chamber

红楼梦

15)the exam hall

考场